Virginiaâs redistricting commission is not turning out the way we thought it would.
The half-legislature, half-citizen, half-Democrat, half-Republican commission has already broken its first promise to the voters who approved the constitutional amendment creating it last year.
Perhaps the bigger question is: Has it broken the law?
The law that created the commission the amendment set in motion specified that âIn making its appointments, the appointing authorities shall give consideration to the racial, ethnic, geographic, and gender diversity of the Commonwealth.â
The initial appointments came short of the most obvious way to achieve diversity â by having an equal number of men and women.